Say Peace - Common, PJ, Black Thought

Say peace, we don’t really want no trouble

Tell me, is you down with the struggle?

All they really wanna do is cuff you

They don’t love you (No)

Say peace, we don’t really want no trouble

Tell me, is you down with the struggle?

All they really wanna do is cuff you

They don’t love you (No)

Staring into the darkness like Marcus

Garvey, I’m an artist, respect to the goddess

Some say I’m too modest because I’m the hardest

On this path to progress there’s been carnage

Regardless, this is a harvest for the world to harness

Elder’s dreams, creator’s promise

Being free is like paying homage

I’ve been on that peace, black Dalai Lama

My college was between Stony and Cottage

The knowledge I got it because niggas was 'bout it

Knew I had to pull it, the bullet or the ballot

It’s like the parable of the story of the talents

Want my people to get paper with no margin

Turning ghettos to gardens like Ron Finley

Through stages of life, the world’s my Wembley

I MC from the point of entry

Of peace, some find it all through their paper routin'

And some find their peace, their peace through praise and shoutin'

And some find their peace through pulling the shades like Malcom

I found my peace, my peace making these albums

Say peace, we don’t really want no trouble

Tell me, is you down with the struggle?

All they really wanna do is cuff you

They don’t love you (No)

Say peace, we don’t really want no trouble

Tell me, is you down with the struggle?

All they really wanna do is cuff you

They don’t love you (No)

In dystopian ground zero from xenophobia

They love to trope me and misquote me

They even wrote me out of all accounts

Other than shouldering small amounts till I called them out

I’m what this story is all about

My arrival wasn’t willingly, nah

But that’s chillingly the truth

Now I fear for shots from cops killing me

They on the hunt for the blood

And we the auxiliary

The black power and love

I’m all the above above

We’ll find peace in the culture I’m responsible to save

And every piece of the puzzle, every article, the page

I’m at peace in the struggle, I’m awake and not afraid

While I’m channeling my energy from particle to wave

The peace, like Mandela seated on Robben Island

Wise like a prophet arriving from the highlands

Look, I’m not here for any kinda problem

Keep me out of your gossip column

Thank you, I’m calm and tranquil

At the time and place too I shine

Word to God, I’m divine, and graceful

The grind could break you, if you concentrate

You could find your faith, where the higher conscious takes you

That’s peace

Say peace, we don’t really want no trouble

Tell me, is you down with the struggle?

All they really wanna do is cuff you

They don’t love you (No)

Say peace, we don’t really want no trouble

Tell me, is you down with the struggle?

All they really wanna do is cuff you

They don’t love you (No)

Say we dem loss

We say we dey pon the right path

Big life only

Liberty, freedom

Tell me what they fighting for

Tell me what they fighting for

Tell me what they fighting for

Tell me what they fighting for

Tell me what they fighting for